A rotating house for Gungahlin

The rotating house, in the suburb of Crace, will be the first of its kind in the nation’s capital.

Currently under construction, the four-bedroom home, designed by DNA Architects and Industrious Design, will allow its owners to take full advantage of natural light and solar efficiency by rotating with the touch of a button.

The house – dubbed Girasole, meaning follow the sun – can complete a full rotation in less than 10 minutes and can also rotate to track the sun automatically.

The rotation, using twenty-eight wheels and two motors, will require about 100 watts of electricity – about the same as a bright light bulb.

It is a good idea because you can “over-glaze” one side of the house, and then point that south in summer, or hot days in spring/autumn. Could probably achieve the same effect with shutters or removable shade structures for a fair bit less cost.

Looks fairly interesting, and I’d love to see how it goes in 5-8 years time.
Looking through the FB pics and I notice one of our newer contributors who likes to advertise by stealth commented that they could have assisted the project.

Quite interesting! I’d love to see how the services were all designed to work in a rotating environment! Would be tricky to arrange I imagine?!
Same with the guttering. It mentions an underground tank but not sure how you’d connect that.
The neighbours must have been a bit freaked when they saw the early work!